Odds are hugely in your favor. There are tens of thousands of flights every day. Yet when any mishap occurs it becomes news. How many hundreds of people are killed EVERY DAY in traffic accidents? But they do not make news. Only reason airplane mishaps make news is because they are so rare.
Only reason airplane mishaps make news is because they are so rare.
That’s one reason, but not the only one. Another is that auto fatalities generally involve one to a few people at a time, whereas airline fatalities can involve hundreds.
When's the last time 250 people died in a single car crash?